Level Up

How it's made

Source

a game "level up" cue built from three layers: a rising sweep, a struck-bell major arpeggio that blooms into a held chord, and a tail of glassy sparkles.

Sweep

band-passed saw/noise whose centre glides 300 Hz -> 5 kHz in about 0.5 s (exp curve) and fades as the arpeggio lands; it supplies the "bright upward" motion without carrying pitch.

Chord

root, major third, fifth, octave and a tenth (ratios 1, 1.26, 1.498, 2, 2.52) strike 40-140 ms apart; each note is a sine plus slightly stretched partials (2.01x, 3.02x) with faster-decaying upper partials, so the attack is bright and the ring is pure. All notes ring on for 0.5-1.4 s, which builds the chord bloom.

Sparkle

6-18 short high sine pings drawn from the major pentatonic above the root, spread across the tail with falling strength and random pan, like a shower of tiny bells.

Envelope

3 ms strikes, exponential decays; the final output is faded to zero after the longest ring.

Variation

`rng` detunes partials by 0.2 %, jitters strike times and picks sparkle notes and pan; presets change root pitch, sweep strength, arpeggio speed, ring length and sparkle density.

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